> Most likely because you are the first one to need it. The core event
> feature of the mouse/touchscreen/tablet drivers is an XFree86 addition.
> The XInput SI code has no concept of a secondary device also sending
> core events. It only has the notion that 1 device is the core, but which
> one it is can be switched programmatically. In practice, that turns out
> not to be an adequate model, so the SendCoreEvents feature was added.
> But I'm not aware of anyone having worked with secondary keyboard
> devices before, so it was not added to that code path.

Ah, okay. It was strange enough to see only one driver (in Xfree's
tarball) using xf86PostKeyEvent at all.
Thanks for the explanation, now I can use my driver without fear that it
will cause my keyboard to explode.

Olaf

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